Word: simon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GOLDEN HAND (501 pp.]-Edith Simon-Putnam...
Measles strikes Cambridge and the eastern seaboard strongly every three or four years, according to Simon B. Kelleher, city medical health officer. This year is the peak of the cycle...
...biggest surprise came when Ohio Match let out that it, in turn, is controlled by Norton Simon, 45, chairman of famed Hunt Foods, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 8, 1945), a big and successful West Coast food-packing company. Shrewd, canny Simon, who has an X-ray eye for spotting undervalued companies, had kept his control a secret. He had moved in when Government trustbusters, in 1946, forced the principal stockholders of Diamond Match Co. to sell their controlling interest in Ohio Match. Simon, checking into the company's books, found it had a net worth...
Surprise Snub. Last year, when oil was struck in Williston Basin, Simon took a direct hand in the railroad. He used Ohio Match's voting power to elect himself to Northern Pacific's board of directors, and began making his presence felt. Simon insisted that Northern Pacific's haphazard way of handling its oil leases be improved, got the board to hire Dallas' famed geologist E. De Golyer (TIME, March 24) to survey the railroad's oil lands, and brought in Standard Oil Co. of California's former assistant vice president LeRoy Hines...
Said McCarthy: "Let us assume . . . without admitting it, that your purpose was simon-pure. I am asking whether you and I agree that your tankers did help the Communist cause in China . . . By giving them scarce...